As mentioned in https://docs.lakefs.io/howto/garbage-collection/gc.html#how-to-run-the-garbage-collection-job,

For GC to work on Azure blob, soft delete should be disabled.

Uhm ... is there a reason why ? We currently have Soft Delete enabled, does that mean we will never be able to run GC ??

Hi @HT Currently GC doesn’t work with soft delete enabled. Would you mind opening a feature request issue for that?

this is actually a big deal as Soft delete can only enable/disabled at creation of the storage account !